--- title: Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September description: Catch them before they're gone canonical: https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-30T22:52:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:33:35.826Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September og:description: Catch them before they're gone og:url: https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3bab6dde75514e0/6988619e35ba6ff3a3c0ef0c/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September twitter:description: Catch them before they're gone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3bab6dde75514e0/6988619e35ba6ff3a3c0ef0c/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September by [Devan Coggan/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan/EW Aug 30, 2015 10:52 PM UTC  Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"Murray Close by [Devan Coggan/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan/EW Aug 30, 2015 10:52 PM UTC If you still haven’t seen _Hunger Games: Catching Fire_, you’d better get on that: Netflix has announced it won’t renew its U.S. agreement with Epix. As a result, the streaming service will lose some big movies like _Hunger Games_, _World War Z_ and _Transformers: Age of Extinction_ at the end of September. [In a blog post on Netflix’s website](http://blog.netflix.com/2015/08/why-youll-see-some-high-profile-movies.html), chief content officer Ted Sarandos explained that Netflix has decided not to continue working with Epix, adding that many of these more popular movies are also available on cable and other streaming services, and Netflix’s focus is on cultivating new exclusive movies and series. “We know some of you will be disappointed by the expiration of the Epix movies,” Sarandos wrote. “Our goal is to provide great movies and TV series for all tastes, that are only available on Netflix.” Sarandos also highlighted some of the upcoming Netflix exclusives, including Cary Fukunaga’s _Beasts of No Nation_ in October and Adam Sandler’s _Ridiculous Six_ and Sofia Coppola’s _A Very Murray Christmas_ in December. “We hear from our members that you wish we had newer movies,” Sarandos wrote. “So do we.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/30/netflix-wont-renew-epix-deal-will-lose-hunger-games-catching-fire-world-war-z-end) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/"},"headline":"Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September","datePublished":"2015-08-30T22:52:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:33:35.826Z","description":"Catch them before they're gone","url":"https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3bab6dde75514e0/6988619e35ba6ff3a3c0ef0c/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan/EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3bab6dde75514e0/6988619e35ba6ff3a3c0ef0c/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games","caption":"Jennifer Lawrence in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\"","creditText":"Murray Close","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4016456/netflix-epix-movies-expire/","name":"Netflix Is Losing These Big Movies at the End of September"}}]}] ```